🌍 The Global Context: An Interconnected Right-Wing

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We close out our series on how we got to a Trump presidency and the rise in fascism with the global perspective. Like red states in the U.S., authoritarian nations are organized, they're coordinated, & they have a playbook. Recognizing the interconnections of the threat allows us to respond in reality. Read on for more...

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The Global Context: What’s Really at Stake?

Part IV: The Roots & Decay of U.S. Democracy

What does Nancy Pelosi, Keir Starmer, Peter Thiel, Georgia Meloni, & Stephen Miller all have in common? They're all authoritarians bent on keeping control of a system that's slipping before their eyes. (sorry, I said it)

It's time we take our eyes off the two-party system aka right vs. left thinking. It's not a true take! What we're actually dealing with is elites vs. everyone else and people need to start acting like it.

Today's final chapter on our series, The Roots & Decay of U.S. Democracy, we pull our perspective out to the global scale and talk about how authoritarians have been so successful at taking power so quickly.